On 6/17/20 1:27 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Jun 17, 2020, at 3:25 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
wrote:
https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
28min documentary on the last ever edition of the NY Times to be
printed using hot metal -- before they switched to what are now a
quite choice assortment of late-'70s minicomputers. I think I spotted
a PDP, a Data General and some IBM device, but I am no expert in this
era.
As a veteran reader of Fredric Brown, especially "the Enchanted
Linotype", I have been using ETAOIN SHRDLU to win at Hangman for many
years... but I'd never seen one working before. It all still seems
like magic to me.
They should be fairly easy to find in printing musea.
A friend of mine who was in Seattle collected this stuff. He had a
couple Linotype/Intertype machines, a press, and lots and lots of
magazines of type. It was set up in his garage and he would give demos
of it in action. It was interesting how it worked. Unfortunately, he had
to move out of the area for work and moving that stuff to another state
was not feasible, so another local collector got it all.
There was another documentary on them, Linotype: The Film
(https://linotypefilm.com).
alan
